scholarly journals Dermot Healy and memory

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-188
Author(s):  
Ondrej Pilny
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Old People ◽  
Film Version ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Verbatim Theatre ◽  
Documentary Drama ◽  
The Right ◽  
Day Care Centre

The essay focuses on Irish author Dermot Healy’s involvement with memories of old people within two collaborative projects: the making of a film based on the documentary novel I Could Read the Sky by Timothy O’Grady and Steve Pyke (1997), and the development of a documentary drama with the clients of a day care centre in Co. Monaghan, entitled Men to the Right, Women to the Left (2001). It examines the methods used to record the material and its subsequent creative use, particularly in comparison with the technique of British verbatim theatre, and in the context of the imperfections of individual memory that are deftly explored in Healy’s memoir The Bend for Home (1996). The essay ultimately argues that notwithstanding problems concerning authenticity, Healy’s play, alongside O’Grady and Pyke’s book and Nichola Bruce’s film version of it, should be regarded as vital contributions to the formation of Ireland’s cultural memory, particularly as they powerfully reconstruct “the mundane everyday” that is so often lost.

Following Majority Rule versus Deferring to Elders: Educational Background Shapes Group Decision Preference in Burmese Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yo Nakawake ◽  
Mark Stanford
Keyword(s):  
Majority Rule ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
International Schools ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
The Right ◽  
Universal Pattern ◽  
Day Care Centre

Previous studies showed that most children believe majority rule is the right decision rule, and prefer it to authority rule when making group decisions among peers. Yet, these were conducted mostly in Western or similar populations. Here, we conducted experiments with fifty-one Burmese children (4 to 11 years old) at three types of educational institutions: international schools, a monastery school and a day-care centre for street children. In the experiment, children were asked whether they prefer majority or authority rule in a hypothetical story. The result showed the educational institution influences the proportion choosing majority rule, suggesting that preference for majority rule may not be a universal pattern and decision preference may be shaped by cultural factors.

scholarly journals Hvordan kommer matematisk meningsskaping til syne i barns lek? En casestudie

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vigdis Flottorp
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Mathematical Meaning ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Day Care Centre

Title: Mathematical meaning making in children’s play? Verbal and non-verbal forms of expressionsAbstract: I analyze an episode from field work in a multilingual day-care centre in Oslo. I examine verbal and non-verbal expressions. The children are 5 years old, and the mathematics is about classification. The children are creating structure and are seeking meaning. This is a key part of their play. My findings indicate that mathematical order and structure become conscious experiences to the children. I argue that we cannot know about the children’s mathematical and communicative competence without knowing the physical context, the play in the sandpit, and the friendship between the boys.

scholarly journals Intestinal Parasites in Children from a Day Care Centre in Matanzas City, Cuba

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e51394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Cañete ◽  
Mariuska Morales Díaz ◽  
Roxana Avalos García ◽  
Pedro Miguel Laúd Martinez ◽  
Félix Manuel Ponce
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Intestinal Parasites ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Day Care Centre

scholarly journals Frailty Level Monitoring and Analysis after a Pilot Six-Week Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Using the FRED Exergame Including Biofeedback Supervision in an Elderly Day Care Centre

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iranzu Mugueta-Aguinaga ◽  
Begonya Garcia-Zapirain
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Study Group ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Day Care Centre

Background: Frailty is a status of extreme vulnerability to endogenous and exogenous stressors exposing the individual to a higher risk of negative health-related outcomes. Exercise using interactive videos, known as exergames, is being increasingly used to increase physical activity by improving health and the physical function in elderly adults. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the reduction in the degree of frailty, the degree of independence in activities of daily living, the perception of one’s state of health, safety and cardiac healthiness by the exercise done using FRED over a 6-week period in elderly day care centre. Material and Methods: Frail volunteers >65 years of age, with a score of <10 points (SPPB), took part in the study. A study group and a control group of 20 participants respectively were obtained. Following randomisation, the study group (20) took part in 18 sessions in total over 6 months, and biofeedback was recorded in each session. Results: After 6 weeks, 100% of patients from the control group continued evidencing frailty risk, whereas only 5% of patients from the study group did so, with p < 0.001 statistical significance. In the case of the EQ-VAS, the control group worsened (−12.63 points) whereas the study group improved (12.05 points). The Barthel Index showed an improvement in the study group after 6 weeks, with statistically significant evidence and a value of p < 0.003906. Safety compliance with the physical activity exceeded 87% and even improved as the days went by. Discussion: Our results stand out from those obtained by other authors in that FRED is an ad hoc-designed exergame, significantly reduced the presence and severity of frailty in a sample of sedentary elders, thus potentially modifying their risk profile. It in turn improves the degree of independence in activities of daily living and the perception of one’s state of health, proving to be a safe and cardiac healthy exercise. Conclusions: The study undertaken confirms the fact that the FRED game proves to be a valid technological solution for reducing frailty risk. Based on the study conducted, the exergame may be considered an effective, safe and entertaining alternative.

scholarly journals Day care centre attendance and quality of life in depressed older adults living in the community

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Bilotta ◽  
Luigi Bergamaschini ◽  
Sibilla Spreafico ◽  
Carlo Vergani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Day Care Centre

scholarly journals Plugging in through clothing: How children’s clothes influence perception and affective practices in day care

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Paju
Keyword(s):  
Day Care ◽  
Care Centre ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Care Groups ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Identity Representation ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Perception Action ◽  
Day Care Centre

The article examines children’s clothes in the practices of everyday life in day care. The data for the article are drawn from an ethnography of three- to seven-year-old children’s day care groups in a day care centre intended for children of shift-working parents in southern Finland. Rather than focusing on the relations between identity, representation and clothing, the article examines what clothes do in the everyday practices of day care. Clothes are seen, first, as mediating perception, and, second, as taking part in and maintaining affective everyday practices. The effects of wearing clothes are analysed using the concept of plug-ins by Latour and that of affordances proposed by Gibson. The plug-ins detect the ways in which objects transmit selfhood, while affordances describe the relation between body and environment in perception. Through the analysis of everyday practices of wearing clothing, clothes are seen as connectors. They enhance, diminish or expand possibilities for perception, action and affective practices in which children engage, thereby altering the children’s ways of being. The article proposes that the wearing of clothing plays a role in constituting selfhood outside of mere representations.

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